13th Edition new features
Key new features:
The GenStat Server has been upgraded to Release 13.1
- Release 13.1 includes 4 new directives, 6 new functions and 29 new procedures
New supported file formats
- Import/Export Flapjack text genotype and map files
Graphics enhancements
- Ability to add bitmap plotting symbols
- Scientific and engineering notation for axis labels
- Set transparency of colours
- Ability to plot axis labels at an angle
New statistical menus
Regression
- Nonlinear quantile regression menu for fitting nonlinear quantile regression models
- Ability to plot tables of predictions
Mixed Models
- Ability to plot tables of predictions
Multivariate Analysis
- New Stepwise Discriminant Analysis menu
- Correspondence Analysis menu has been extended including the addition of biplots
Time Series
- New menu for moving averages
QTL Analysis
- QTL analysis menus extended to include cross pollinator and association mapping populations
- Docked QTL data space for storing data structures for use within QTL menus
- Summary Statistics for Markers menu for descriptive statistics and giagnostic plots
- Summary Statistics between Traits menu for descriptive statistics for multi-traits
- Menus to subset QTL data by genotypes and by markers
- Replace Missing Values in Marker Scores menu for imputation of missing marker scores
- Multi-trait Linkage Analysis menu using simple and composite interval mapping
- New Eigenanalysis and Linkage Disequilibrium (LD) Decay menus
- Single Trait Association Analysis menu for association mapping
New Bootstrap Resampling menu for generating a distribution for a specified statistic.
New spreadsheet facilities
General
- New change case of column names menu item in Column menu
New documentation
- A Guide to the GenStat Command Language
- A Guide to Multivariate Analysis in GenStat